Posted on 03/08/2008 9:52:50 AM PST by processing please hold
I've been searching for a free download version of adware/spyware removal. The sites I find says free but after turning a couple of pages on the site, dollar signs are always at the end of the article.
Is there a truly FREE download, no bait and switch?
Nah, you'll have no problems.
But here's a CAUTION with Spybot Search and Destroy...
When I got this new pc I'm on now and loaded Spybot I checked one extra little box (for Tea Timer IIRC) and it then saw all the Programs I was loading as a threat and a Warning Window kept popping up. It became a real pain & hassle til I unchecked it and turned it off.
Currently running Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 6 64 bit variety...Firefox 3 is a bit squirrly....bookmarks especially....
Did you happen to know an engineer in Pasadena named Sam R.? He was an excellent Mac programmer. At JPL, he wrote an orbit insertion program for one of the old Mars landers. He was the chief software scientist at Polaroid last time I heard, but that was several years ago.
I like the SuperAntiSpyware, linked in #17.
It was originally recommended to me by a dell techy, and there are two versions- one is free.
Curb enthusiasm.
You are making your Mom run Linux? That's just downright mean, but the fact that she is going along with it proves how much she loves her children.
I'm in McCain's age bracket and I have been trying a LOT of the different Linux versions...and do nearly all of them with GUI interfaces....
The new kid on the block...gOS that comes on the Walmart 200$ computer is very interesting....and has applications tailored to Google....gonna start looking at that one....
It is based on Ubuntu and has the auto update facility....
Still has some rough edges but looks promising and performs well on my slower X2 box....
You are way out of date if you believe that Linux is not able to be properly maintained by an average or even below average user. Very few Linux users have to know anything about compiling programs or such nowadays. All they have to do is locate the “add or remove programs” section, which is just about as difficult as the same for Windows products, point-click-use. All the major distributions are quite simple now to maintain. The need for terminal windows is about as common as the need for an MS user to go to the “Start>>Run>>...” line.
Plus, you don’t have to worry about the major bane of Windows users: file corruption, viruses, etc.
I find I (and my computer) spend almost NO time (or money) keeping my Linux systems safe, and on the other hand my Windows systems need to have virus and spyware software updated daily (or weekly at worst) chugging along examining all files periodically, and those programs that are free bug you to pay them something.
Meanwhile, I even ran a Linux Fedora Core 3 system, hooked up to DSL constantly for four solid years, going to all kinds of sites, with no updating at all, and not a single problem. You try that with any Windows system! The very modest amount of time I spent learning the Linux concepts was paid back within a couple months.
Back in ‘98 or so, it was rather difficult for anyone other than a computer guru to install and use any linux. Five to six years ago, it was easy for an average user to install Linux, but was difficult to install and update programs. Now, it is just as easy for an average user to install a new Linux program as it is for them to do it in Windows. And there is a huge choice of free programs available.
There is a single problem now, and that has little to do with Linux: a diminishing number of hardware manufacturers still don’t provide proper drivers. If your computer and hardware don’t have one of those rogue manufacturers, it can be astonishingly SIMPLE for an average user to make the change to Linux. Some of the new Linux distributions are even being tuned to operate laptops as kid’s machines, etc.
And all this without the bother and expense and time of purchasing and maintaining a Windows operating system!
I'm struggling with a Linux GUI problem right now. I'm trying to establish an IPSec tunnel between two Fedora boxes, but the GUI configuration tool does not work right. I'm using IPSec in the 2.6 kernel (KAME ipsec-tools), ESP-within-AH protocols, with NAT traversal. I'm receiving and decrypting the packets at the remote peer, but they are not getting routed correctly after that. I've modified Red Hat's /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ipsec scripts to insert the nat_traversal directive into the racoon config file. I'm pretty sure that this tunnel would be working out-of-the-box already with Microsoft or Apple server software.
Been a long time since you responded to me:
You’ll get this going OK, with all the interest on this thread.
Though my experience is somewhat out of date (3yrs), I had some problems/ conflicts when I ran lavasoft along with SpyBot. I’ve seen no such conflicts when running Spybot(which I consider best) alongside of Spywareblaster. Plus, since one is more “active” protection and the other is passive, it seems the combo to be pretty decent.
I’ll be interested in the results of your experience.
That is exactly what I meant by “verifying” that I was getting good anti-spyware protection. Kim Komando has very good links, that I trust, for this type of thing, but I find it difficult to locate things on her site sometimes. In any event, many of the “good” spyware killers have “look-alikes” that have cropped up. Adaware is a very good example, as is the other that you were given.
I can verify that the links I gave in my post early on are properly vetted and safe, as some other FReepers have done for other links they’ve given.
Now, on the Ad-ware 2007 it found 456 items. I'm on the part that has suggestions on the bottom that asks you----
1)Add to ignore
2)Quarantine
3)Remove
System Restore.
Which one should I click on?
So far it looks like the spybot S&D and lavasoft are working together. I’m just waiting to see if they’ll still be working together after I know which button to click on my previous post.
Sorry, System Restore should have been number 4)
My limited Linux knowledge wouldn't know where to start with that....
Remove
It’s been a while now, but IF I recall correctly, lavasoft kept flagging things Spybot did as bad. They are both “active” protection, so such conflicts seem almost inevitable to me. Also, your previous post reminded me that I ran into situations with it that I didn’t really know what to do when I ran those two together. I don’t have any such questions with SpywareBlaster & Spybot together, because they do things so differently.
I respect other opinions and users that have no such issues with spybot&lavasoft, though, and I wish you well with that combo, though I can’t offer any opinions.
I've been using those package managers for a quite a while. They are not foolproof. Eric S. Raymond famously abandoned Fedora due to their problems in managing dependencies.
The problem is that Linux software is developed in a state of chaos. There are no consistent standards for applications or user interfaces. The quality of the software is highly variable.
The solution for making Linux into a first-class operating system for desktop and portable usage is for Dell to invest a few years and a few billion dollars in Linux research and development, as Apple did with Unix and Mac OS X.
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